Transparency
Data Sources & Attribution
Every database, API and source behind the data on this site.
Everything on this site is either imported from an open data source or produced by us. This page lists every source, what it supplies, and under what terms. Nothing here is hidden — knowing where a fact came from is part of being able to trust it.
Catalogue data
| Source | What it supplies | Refresh |
|---|---|---|
| IGDB | Primary catalogue: game records, release dates, summaries, genres, themes, game modes, cover art, screenshots, characters, companies, franchises, engines and DLC relationships. | Daily |
| RAWG | Backfill for titles missing from IGDB, plus additional screenshots, store links and Metacritic scores. | Daily |
| Steam | PC system requirements, achievement counts, install sizes, and regional storefront pricing across 20 countries. | Daily |
| Wikipedia & Wikidata | Plot summaries, character background and development history, under CC BY-SA 4.0. | Weekly |
| YouTube Data API | Official trailer and gameplay video listings. Videos are embedded, never re-hosted. | Weekly |
Pricing data
| Source | What it supplies | Refresh |
|---|---|---|
| CheapShark | Live prices and active deals across 30+ authorised digital stores. | Daily |
| IsThereAnyDeal | Historical low prices, used to tell a genuine record low from a routine seasonal discount. | Daily |
| Steam regional storefronts | Actual local prices in PKR, INR, TRY, BRL, NGN and 15 other currencies — read from the storefront rather than converted from USD. | Daily |
| Open exchange rate feed | Currency conversion for the "approximately USD" column only. Local prices are never derived from these rates. | Daily |
Compatibility data
| Source | What it supplies | Refresh |
|---|---|---|
| ProtonDB | Steam Deck and Linux compatibility ratings, compiled from reports filed by players who ran the game through Proton. Used under the Open Database License. This is not Valve's "Steam Deck Verified" badge, which is a separate rating awarded by Valve after its own testing — the two often disagree. Every page shows the report count behind the rating and the date it was read. | Rolling |
Retro game data
| Source | What it supplies | Refresh |
|---|---|---|
| libretro-database | Emulator and cheat-device codes (Game Genie, Action Replay, GameShark and RetroArch's own format) for NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, PlayStation and PSP games. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the codes on our pages are shared under the same licence, each linked to its source file and commit. Attached to a game only when exactly one game in our catalogue has that title on that system. Not tested by us, and shown apart from our own codes. | By hand |
| RetroAchievements | Whether a retro game has an achievement set, with its achievement and point counts, read from the RetroAchievements Web API and linked back to each set. | By hand |
What we produce ourselves
- Cheat codes. Compiled here from the games' own documentation, consoles and manuals — no API supplies this, and it is the reason this site exists. Each code is labelled either reported working or tested, and tested means a person here entered it on the platform listed and watched it work. The full list of tested codes is public, with dates.
- Save file locations. Written by hand, per game and per platform. Nothing here is taken from PCGamingWiki, whose CC BY-NC-SA licence does not permit commercial use.
- Guides and articles. Written by named authors after playing the game.
- Parsed system requirements. Store listings publish requirements as prose; we parse them into comparable fields so a checker can use them.
- Regional price analysis. The comparison, the ranking and the history charts.
- Long-form game descriptions. Where a page carries an "About" section in our own words, it was written here.
Open-source software in our tools
These open-source projects are served from this site, unmodified, with their licence files beside them, and load only on the pages that need them.
| Library | Used by | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Fuse.js 7.5.0 | The command finder's typo-tolerant search. | Apache License 2.0 |
| Jedison 1.21.1 | The form in the console command builder. | MIT License |
| Apache ECharts 6.1.0 | Price history and price-by-country charts. Each chart has the same figures in a table. | Apache License 2.0 (notice, includes d3 code under BSD 3-Clause) |
| Pagefind 1.5.2 | Article search, from an index built from our own articles. | MIT License |
| Phaser 4.2.1 | The engine behind Sequence Rush. The game itself, its graphics and sounds are ours. | MIT License |
| Piskel | The pixel art editor, hosted unmodified. | Apache License 2.0 |
| giscus | Reader comments, stored in GitHub Discussions, where enabled. Loaded from giscus.app only after a reader asks to see comments. | MIT License |
The cheat troubleshooter and the gamepad tester are written here and use no library; the tester reads controllers through the browser's own Gamepad API.
Corrections to source data
When an upstream database has something wrong, we correct it here and also report it upstream so the fix benefits everyone. Locally corrected fields survive the next sync rather than being overwritten.
Trademarks
All game titles, logos, cover art and character likenesses are the property of their respective publishers and developers. They appear here for identification and commentary. See our DMCA page for removal requests.
Last updated 13 September 2026.